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July 15, 2024

Here's a quick look at today's AI briefing

Sam Altman projected $3.4 billion in annual recurring revenue for OpenAI in June. This report takes a look at publicly available data to calculate whether this projection is accurate. Most of OpenAI's revenue comes from ChatGPT Plus subscribers, with around 21% coming from ChatGPT Enterprise and 15% from the API. The full report is available in the article.

The challenges of using ChatGPT are worse for data science tasks. Data scientists often work with very large data sets that have quality issues on tasks that may require domain expertise. Using ChatGPT will mean that data scientists also have to understand the context, data, code, and assumptions in ChatGPT's responses. Data scientists are still undecided whether tasks in the field are suitable for ChatGPT or not.

Amazon's AI-powered shopping assistant, Rufus, is now available to all U.S. customers within the Amazon mobile app. Rufus is designed to help customers find products, perform comparisons, and get recommendations.

It can provide suggestions for tasks like starting an indoor garden, and even share relevant information about topics like weather and fashion trends.

Other News

  • Llama 3 405B will likely launch on 23rd July. This is the first multimodal Llama model, handling both text and images. Will Meta release it as open-weights? and does that actually matter? 405B means a huge model that can’t run on local PCs.

  • Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant, is now available to all U.S. customers! It can answer product questions, compare options, provide recommendations, and give info about specific orders. It also answers generic, non-shopping-related queries in the context of “what should you buy.”

  • Google’s greenhouse gas emissions increased 48% between 2019 and 2023, and Microsoft’s emissions are up 29% since 2020. The culprit? Power-hungry AI.

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